----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Tyler" <francesty@comcast.net> To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com, MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:18:57 PM Subject: Re: [ML] Bottle Trees I've never done or known anyone who had a bottle tree. Now, rocks, I can stay with the best. I have all my life picked up rocks from trips. I don't remember where the ones from my childhood came from, just that they were special to me. When I married in 1960  I came with my two boxes of rocks. My husband did not understand. My mother died in 84 and I got her box of rocks. My mother in law liked the idea of the rocks. So, when she died in 87 I received her two boxes of rocks. I continue adding even now. the past two years: Utah, Flordia, & Jamica. The past 10 years, since retirement, Alasks, all over New England, Kansas, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Guatemala, Columbia, Costa Rica, Beijing, Low lands of Scotland, Northern England, Paris and from just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem. I know it is just fill rubble but thats where I picked it up. I think that's enough folks. I love my rocks! 100 degrees here today and still no rain. I hate to pray for a hurricane but that may be the only way we get rain. Frances TX Gulf Coast ----- Original Message ----- From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> To: <MEMORY-LANE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:16 AM Subject: [ML] Bottle Trees > For no reason in particular since few people are in the mood of > writing much, I was surfacing some old posts and ran across one that > caught my eye - the history of bottle trees. > > It's really interesting..... > http://www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImagess.htm > > Wish I had a yard now.  One of the favorite pasttimes of our children > was collecting "pretty" rocks.  We hauled them home from our camping > trips and had to limit each child to a certain size box for the > rocks.  Five people, plus our tent and all the gear for a 2/3 week > trip stretched the limits of the car or small trailer.  We decorated > our walkways and flower beds when we got home.  One child didn't want > his rocks any place but in a box in his room so he could look at them > and label them. > > They'd have collected bottles too if there'd been room. > > juanita > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1509/3704 - Release Date: 06/14/11 > I saw an ad for a bottle tree holder and thought it was so cute. My husband thought it was the tackiest think he had ever seen! Now rocks I love . I have them from every place I've ever visited. I have two that almost match --one from Ireland and one from the Irish sea in the north west coast of England. I have a small round one that is almost cream in color that my daughter and I watched being tossed back and forth on the tide when we were looking over a wall in Ireland. It finally was tossed close enough so that I could reach it. We made up a story about how you could dispose of a body and it would be tossed about by the tide and the police wouldn't be able to tell where it had entered the water because of the tide--we were suffering from jet lag after a flight from New York. I finally had to use  some of them as a border around a flower bed. I wanted to get one in the UP of Michigan because that was where my maternal grand father was born and I couldn't find a small one with iron ore in it--I finally saw some in a yard along the road and stopped and asked a man if he would sell me one. He must have thought I was nuts, but he gave me one for free. When we where in the cemetery in the small town my husbands family was from in Germany I couldn't find even a small pebble in the entire area--it is all sand. They rake the cemetery every morning. A fun hobby. Grace   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message